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This thesis is devoted to the study of the interactions between scriptural and pictural elements in French painter Eugène Delacroix's diary. Called by Baudelaire a «poet-painter», Delacroix finds the sources of his paintings in literature, and his diary bears testimony to his wi…

This dissertation is an English translation, with introduction and notes by the translator, of Nobel Laureate George Seferis's only completed novel, Six Nights on the Acropolis, originally written in Modern Greek. Poet George Seferis (1900--1971) had an enduring fascination with…

Using the Uwai Kakuken nikki, a diary kept by the middle-ranking warrior Uwai Kakuken from 1574 to 1586, this dissertation examines some fundamental factors that contributed to the political decision-making process of the Shimazu family in late sixteenth century Japan. In order …

Located at the intersection of literary, journalistic, and socio-historical discourses, “Writing Scenes and Telling Time” looks at diaristic texts in Post-War German Literature through the lens of news reporting and mass media. Since the 1970s, diaristic texts in German emerged …

Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary is a multi-modal project that comprises cinematic, written, audio and food diaries that span forty years of the artist’s life. Robertson would come to understand the work in different ways: as a weight loss diary; as a “trousseau” for h…

This thesis aims to tell the story of James Austin Bowman as he navigated the Western Front during World War I. The thesis utilizes two main types of historical documents: the personal diary and the letters to his wife. During his time on the Western Front, Bowman wrote in a per…